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Blueprints and Breakthroughs: How Jeffrey Cutts Found His Focus at TSTC The moment Jeffrey Cutts walked into the machine shop, the scent of shaved metal and cutting oil hit him. To most, a working lab is a chaotic symphony of whirring gears and flying debris. To Jeffrey, it was the first place that truly calmed...

  From Four-Year Degree to Two-Year Career: One Grad’s Detour to a Career She Loves   Recent Texas State Technical College graduate Payden Parsons doesn’t dread work anymore.  “It’s exciting to see the work I do in the office actually put into the field,” she smiled. “In my previous positions, I dreaded going to work...

Every Building Starts Here: Inside TSTC’s Blueprint-to-Building Process Long before digital design, architects relied on drawings to communicate how a building should come together. Renaissance architect and theorist Leon Battista Alberti helped formalize the connection between design and construction, establishing a principle that still guides the industry today: a building begins with a plan. Before...

Wearing the Patch with Pride: Raleigh Derks Reflects on 11 Years of Teaching at TSTC The sensory overload hit Raleigh Derks all at once. The lights were bright and the music was blaring, but for a moment, the room felt silent. He stood in his graduation gown, a stark contrast to the calloused hands of...

What Makes a Trailblazer: TSTC graduate always dreamed of business ownership What do dyslexia, jewelry and a persistent mother all have in common? Give up? They all put Mathew on the path to business ownership. Mathew Joseph is a graduate from Texas State Technical College’s Industrial Electrical Technician (now Advanced Manufacturing – Industrial Maintenance) program....

Three years in the making TSTC, AMR team up to train the next generation of paramedics   When training is needed, Will Hendon knows where to turn. The Texas State Technical College alumnus has long supported the college’s Emergency Medical Services program. After graduating from the Abilene program, Will rose through the ranks to become...